Show - February 18, 2020

The Cycle of Transformation: Part 4

Traditionally, our Ancestors are meant to be a primary source of blessing, wisdom, love and protection. However, when the dead aren’t tended well they hijack the living, their unresolved issues snowballing down the generations and becoming a source of disease and dysfunction. What if we could repair the dysfunction in our lineages and receive the full blessings we are meant to embody? What if with the wisdom of our ancestors we could vision and create a more beautiful world for our descendants?

This week Langston Kahn, guest host and a senior teacher at the Last Mask Center, will interview students involved in the fourth year of the Cycle of Transformation, the 4-year training process offered by the Last Mask Center, which continues in year four with a week-long residential workshop, Laying The Bones To Rest. They will explore together how their work with ancestors have changed their lives and their experience of vision and purpose deepened after four years of being held in this work by a contemporary shamanic community.

Shamanic teacher and author, Christina is a skilled healer who weaves her authentic shamanic experience, extensive training, and experience with shamans from Ecuador, Nepal, Tibet, and Africa into her contemporary practice. She has been in practice for 20 years, specializing in soul retrieval healings, soul part integration and ancestral healing. She is the director of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing in Portland, Oregon.

Pratt’s unique gift is creating effective and transforming healing rituals for contemporary people in contemporary communities. She is a teacher of exceptional clarity, humor, and inspiration, bringing the power of shamanism into the practical grasp of anyone willing to take responsibility for improving the quality of their life. Her four-year training in focuses on the practical use of shamanic skills to mature spiritually, to find ones individual true purpose, and to express that purpose fully from the heart in joy and without apology.

She is the author of An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, (Rosen Publishing) available for purchase at her website. Her popular weekly Internet radio show, Why Shamanism Now?, podcast archives can be found at iTunes .

Imagine having the following dream: A spider appears, tells you that you need an "ego death", and then rips you to shreds. You might think that was a bad thing. You'd be wrong. If you look up "spiders", "ego death", and "dismemberment" in your handy-dandy Encyclopedia of Shamanism, you'll discover that, shamanically speaking this dream is in fact a powerful gift from the Spirit. Intrigued?

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